Made to Last: Canon (non-digital) Elph APS Camera: Still Ticking in 2010

Back in the days when most consumer digital photography had sub-megapixel resolutions, Canon introduced, in 1996, a tiny point-and-shoot camera branded as the Elph in the U.S. (IXUS in Eurote and IXY in Japan). It used a unique film format that never really caught on (APS – Advanced Photo System). I bought one because I liked the Elph’s extremely small size, the quality of its photos, and its option to take panoramic photos (really just a crop of a single APS frame) that was printed in an oversized format.